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Is There Hope?

June 2, 2022 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I don’t have to fight. I can try, but I don’t have to believe I am doing something wrong if it doesn’t go my way. I can do everything right and still all that I do will disappear. And I will disappear too. Truly knowing this, I can really watch the sunrise. I can really hear a friend. I can just be.

Filed Under: General Interest, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth

A Parable About Letting Go

December 30, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I’ve been rereading Illusions by Richard Bach and found this parable about letting go helpful: The Master answered and said, “Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. “The current of the river swept silently over them all – young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current […]

Filed Under: General Interest, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth

Why Being Confused Is OK

December 19, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I’m suffering, and I’ll tell you why. Things are hard between me and my daughter. Respecting her privacy, I won’t tell you much except to say that she is now a teen and there is a clash between the way she thinks her life should go and what I feel I need to do to […]

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Why We Shouldn’t Push Away Feelings

November 5, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking about how so many of us find it hard to be in the presence of our feelings. We believe that we should work to make them go away when we have them. Like they are demons to be exorcised. And sometimes, because we find our own feelings uncomfortable we find the feelings […]

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Can Waking Up Save The Amazon?

November 5, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

The Amazon and Congo, if you didn’t know, are so important, first, because they are simply precious but, also, because such forests absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. Maintaining robust forests is part of the answer to climate change. That so much of the Amazon and the Congo is ablaze is scary and worrying and […]

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How Awe Turns Sadness Into Action

November 5, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

I was walking through the amazing Washington Square Park on my way to lead a meditation for climate activists the other day, and I was feeling so amazed with the trees and the grass and the park. I felt joy. But then I thought, How is it right to feel joy right now when what is […]

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How Red Faced Paddy Changed My Life

November 5, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

There is a story I tell about an encounter I had many years ago with a man we called Red Faced Paddy. It was this encounter that taught me that my presumed “superior” understanding or enlightenment never gives me the right to judge–it only gives me the responsibility to help. Anyway, Red Faced Paddy and […]

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